Damilola Murder Article, group 5

1. Structure

Divide the article into sections (between 5 and 10 sections) and give each section a title. Write your titles like this: Introduction to murder case (p. 62, first column, line 5.12).

 

Introduktion to murder case (p. 62, line 1-20)

Investigation gone bad (p. 63, line 1-33)

The gang culture (p. 63, line 34- p. 64, line 17)
Interviews (p. 64, line 18- p. 66, line 9)

Rounding up (p. 66, line 10-50)

2. Angle on the murder case: Social problem

Describe in your own words how the murder of Damilola is a symptom of a social problem in the United Kingdom.

- It shows that UK have a lot of crime in a very young age, we know that because the boy who talks with the mother said that he knows the murder, but will not tell it, because he ain't no grass. That also shows that there are a lot of gangs, where they stand together and do bad stuff., and it definitely has an effect on crime, and will also have bad effect on the social problems in UK. It could also be a symptom of a goverment that not doing enough to prevent crimes among the youth.       

3. Connect your answer to question 2 to the following quote from the text (how is the incident discribe in the quote connected to Damilola's murder and how are the two cases connected to the wider social problem you discussed above etc.):

“A year ago, 16-year-old Joshua was kidnapped by a gang of his own friends. They held him prisoner for hours and tortured him be burning him with cigarette ends and cutting him with knives. Despite his ordeal he can still be seen hanging out regularly with the sam gang. He was seen as weak, and now he is seen as one of them.” (p. 66, column 1, line 12-20)

Basicly it is the same story, with different people and a different outcome. In this case Joshua lived which is positive, but now he is a part of a gang, and he probably cannot get out again, even if he want to.

also it is a problem that the young people in theese areas are willing and able to perform a kidnapping and complete it, even though it is one of their friends.

4. Message

What do you think is the message of this article? Find at least two quotes from the text to support your answer.

 

We think that the message is that the goverment is not doing enough to prevent the gang culture among the youth ; If the goverment does not act this sort of culture will develop in all our inner cities (p. 66 line 44-46)

 

Brian, Christian Anhøj, Christian Møller, Kathrine R.